Launch Detail
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Launch detail
Blue Origin • New Shepard • West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch (TX)
Blue Origin • New Shepard • West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
The first flight of the New Shepard 2 booster. The capsule reached an apogee of 100.5 kilometers.
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The first flight of the New Shepard 2 booster. The capsule reached an apogee of 100.5 kilometers.
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
Provider, rocket, pad, and booster history tied to this launch.
Launch-stage and landing context surfaced from LL2 when it exists.
The New Shepard 2 or NS2, made five successful flights in 2015 and 2016, being retired after its fifth flight in October 2016. It was the first booster which Blue Origin successfully landed and reused.
First Blue Origin New Shepard Crew Capsule.
The RSS Jules Verne capsule successfully touched down at Blue Origin's Corn Ranch facility
